Nur-Ali Shushtari

Nur-Ali Shushtari (1948-18 October 2009) was a Brigadier-General of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of Iran, serving as deputy commander of the IRGC ground force. He was assassinated by the Pakistani Jundallah militant group in the 2009 Pishin bombing.

Biography
Nur-Ali Shushtari was born in 1948 to a Shia Muslim family in Nishapur, Iran, and he joined the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 1979 during the Iranian Revolution. Shushtari was a veteran of the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, and he rose in the ranks of the IRGC, eventually becoming a colonel and deputy commander of the IRGC ground force. Shushtari was deployed to Baluchistan to put down a violent insurgency there, and on 18 October 2009 he headed to a basket-weaving exhibition in the southeastern city of Pishin, where he mediated between the Sunni and Shia tribes of the region. As he entered a hut for the exhibition, Jundallah member Abdul Vahid Mohammed Zadeh detonated a suicide vest, killing Shushtari and 41 other people and wounding 150 in one of the worst terrorist attacks of the Baluchistan conflict.